CNN host Don Lemon has said that he doesn't believe the Chicago youths who kidnapped, bound and physically and mentally abused a disabled man on Facebook Live were 'evil'.

Lemon was hosting a group interview about the horrific abuse on Wednesday when one of his interviewees - journalist Matt Lewis - said of the youth's actions: 'It's evil, that's what this is. It's evil, it's brutality, it's man's inhumanity to man.'

'I don't think it's evil, I don't think it's evil. I think these are young people and I think they have bad home training,' Lemon said, according to Breitbart.

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'Not evil': Don Lemon said on Wednesday night that he didn't think the four Chicago youths who allegedly tied up and tortured a mentally disabled man on Facebook Live were evil

Blame: Lemon blamed the parents of the youths - three 18 and one 24 years old - who were arrested when footage of the terrified man was streamed on Facebook Tuesday

'I think that - and I say, who is raising these young people?' he continued. 'I have no idea who’s raising these young people.

'Because no one I know on Earth who is 17 years old or 70 years old would ever think of treating another person like that.

'It is inhumane. And you wonder, at 18 years old, where is your parent? Where’s your guardian?'

Chicago police announced Wednesday that three 18-year-olds and a 24-year-old - two of them girls - had been arrested after broadcasting the alleged kidnapping and torture of the mentally disabled man.